The two largest teacher unions in the nation on Tuesday called for an end to unannounced active shooter drills and life-like simulations. The American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association made the recommendation with the advocacy group Everytown for Gun […]
Students at a Chicago high school held a sit-in Wednesday in protest after a teacher allegedly told a Latino student last month to “go back to your country” when she and others declined to stand for the national anthem during […]
Kirkuk, Iraq – (Reuters) – A rocket hit a base in northern Iraq that hosts U.S. forces on Thursday but caused no casualties, Iraqi security sources said. The base, known as K1 near the city of Kirkuk, is where a […]
Bureij (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – As the bunch of brightly-coloured balloons floated into Gaza’s evening sky, there was a piercing crackle of gunfire. Moments earlier, the balloons had been launched by a group of masked young Palestinian men huddled near […]
Courtesy of Buchanan Angeli Altschul & Sullivan LLP Michael Fesser confided in his boss, Eric Benson, racial discrimination he faced while working for A&B Towing in 2017. Before Fesser could file a formal complaint, Benson conspired with his fishing buddy, […]
WASHINGTON – Hours after the Justice Department reduced its recommended sentence for his longtime friend, President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against the career prosecutors who handled the case. “Prosecutorial Misconduct?” Trump tweeted Tuesday night. He followed up Wednesday morning: “Rogue prosecutors maybe?” The day before, prosecutors […]
Donald Trump has compared his suffering during the impeachment process to the “dark days” of Richard Nixon’s tenure in the White House in the 1970s and threatened to end the practice of having security officials listen in on his calls […]
The 2020 presidential race was always going to be an uphill battle for Elizabeth Warren. Almost from the get-go, political pundits fretted about Warren’s electability, setting in motion a self-fulfilling prophecy now reflected in the New Hampshire primary results. Warren’s […]
Near the end of a debate performance that arguably pulled her presidential campaign back on track, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made the case to New Hampshire voters that her family’s hardscrabble background would immunize her from the corrosive effect of […]
(Bloomberg) — Michael Bloomberg entered the Democratic presidential race late and tore up the traditional playbook on the theory that he would emerge as the centrist alternative if Joe Biden faltered and a progressive was surging. So far, that plan […]